It’s a whole new era at Lucasfilm — legendary sound designer Ben Burtt hasn’t been involved in a Star Wars film since Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and that’s the last film to feature the Wilhelm scream.
“In this movie, we decided to move from the Wilhelm scream,” revealed Matthew Wood, the supervising sound editor on “The Last Jedi” and all-around “Star Wars” audio guru at Skywalker Sound in Nicasio, California. “We’re letting the past die, as Kylo Ren says.”
“We’ve started another scream that we like,” Wood told ABC News. “It’s actually been in this film and ‘Rogue One,’ and some other films that are not ‘Star Wars’-related. But it’s our own little calling card.”
Wood won’t say where the new scream appears in “The Last Jedi” or “Rogue One,” preferring to let fans discover it for themselves. He won’t even say what the scream is called.
“It would reveal too much, but in due time it will be revealed,” Wood said, smiling. “I’ll let it gestate in a few more films before we start talking about what it is.”
Watch the full ABC News Star Wars documentary, The Force of Sound here, an inside look at the sound design of The Last Jedi by Skywalker Sound (a subsidiary of Lucasfilm).
